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Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...data collection; so too is 65 years, and in certain parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, individuals aged 50 or 55 years are included in studies of older people. As you saw in the video too, a worldwide transformation is under way; populations across the world are becoming older, making this a truly global issue. Although 8% of the world’s population was aged...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...Data management, accountability and security 4. Effect on patient 5. Effect on health professional 6. Trust Words: 0 Discussion Advantages Reliability and safety Unlike humans, machines are designed to keep going; they don’t require sleep which means they can be available to assist any time of the day or night, which is important for anyone needing help. Going digital...
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...Analysis of Vertebrate Structure, copyright © 1974, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Figure 2b: adapted from: Courtesy of Caroline Pond © Figure 2a: adapted from: Hildebrand, M. (1974) Analysis of Vertebrate Structure, copyright © 1974, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley &...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...analysis than a political project with a unity of purpose. In their view, cooperation in international organisations should follow the utilitarian premise of amplifying national goals rather than surrendering sovereignty and building a post-modern entity that ends the primacy of the state in world politics. A few years later, the euro crisis also fostered divisions across...
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...analysis. The discussions were exhausted at the level of rules and agreed targets. I found myself talking at cross-purposes with my interlocutors. They would say things like: “The rules on the primary surplus specify that yours should be at least 3.5% of GDP in the medium term.” I would try to have an economic discussion suggesting that this rule ought to be amended...
Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...analysis to work out which mammals are most closely related to each other appreciate the importance of bringing together evidence from different sources...School activities: Evolutionary tree of mammals: 1 Natural groups - Darwin made extensive observations on a great many creatures, including mammals, and noticed that species fell into natural groups, e.g. lions, tigers...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...analysis is needed to address fully the ‘Who’ question and bring out the interests involved more effectively. The technique does, though, provide one means of interrogating particular processes in a relatively structured, systematic fashion. And in its simplicity it can generate ‘awkward questions’, questions that get under the surface of a process or way of...
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...analysis of Kahlo’s more subjectively oriented painting, as a counterpoint to the monumental public art of her husband. Here you will see that it is extra-artistic factors that all too often determine the critical reputations of artists from the past in the here and now. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A344 Art and its global...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs